The early three-masted schooner James Miller was launched at Essex, Connecticut, in 1854 to participate in the great coastal cotton trade of pre-Civil War America. Once a frequent visitor to Mobile and New Orleans, she was driven from the trade by the outbreak of war, and finished her career half a world away on the coast of China. Although never a famous vessel, the Miller was well documented in her time. Her construction was carefully recorded in a manuscript journal now at the Connecticut River Foundation at Steamboat Dock in Essex. The influential designer John W. Griffiths also published a description of her, preserving for us rare details of an important vessel type. Mystic Seaport Model Maker William S. Quincy resurrected the James Miller in modelling her for Mystic Seaport. Here he has compiled the sources and the results of his research on the vessel's construction and her history, and added information on the development of the three-masted schooner. This volume will be of great interest to model makers and maritime historians.